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Dee represents private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies in a broad range of corporate transactions across an array of industries. She works with clients on mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, joint ventures, divestitures, carve-outs, club deals, minority investments, take-privates, reorganizations and cross-border transactions. Dee’s practice also includes advising clients on corporate governance and general corporate matters.
Clients rely on Dee for her technical skills, substantive knowledge and commercial instincts. Prior to joining Ropes & Gray, Dee handled mergers & acquisitions in the New York office of another international law firm.
Experience
- Represented New Mountain Capital and its portfolio companies in a number of transactions, including:
- Acquisition of Real Chemistry (healthcare marketing and advertising business) and Swoop (AI-focused healthcare agency) and their subsequent add-on acquisitions of 21GRAMS, ConversationHealth and TI Health.
- Acquisition of Radancy, a provider of enterprise software and services solutions for end-to-end talent sourcing, and its subsequent add-on acquisitions of Ascendify (a provider of CRM-based recruiter tools) and Brazen Technologies (a provider of hiring event technology).
- Majority investment in ALKU, a specialized contingent staffing and consulting firm, focused on providing highly skilled individuals within areas of life sciences, cloud technology, healthcare IT, data science, and cybersecurity.
- Acquisition of Bounteous, an insights-driven digital experience consultancy.
- Sale of Convey Health Solutions to TPG Capital and Convey’s prior add-on acquisitions of Healthscape and Pareto.
- Represented EQT and its affiliated funds in a number of transactions, including:
- EQT Private Equity in its acquisition of Avetta, a global provider of supply chain risk management software, from Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe.
- EQT Private Capital Asia on its agreement to acquire PropertyGuru Group Limited from its public shareholders in a take-private transaction.
- Represented Advent International and its portfolio companies in a number of transactions, including:
- Acquisition of AccentCare, one of the largest home health and personal care platforms in the United States, from Oak Hill Capital Partners, and its subsequent add-on acquisition of Seasons Hospice & Palliative Care.
- Acquisition of a majority stake in Aimbridge Hospitality, one of the largest third-party hotel operators, from Lee Equity Partners and General Atlantic and subsequent add-on acquisition of Prism Hotels & Resort.
- Represented TA Associates in its acquisition of Momentive Software (the former Association & Events and Nonprofit Solutions divisions of Community Brands).
- Represented Charlesbank Capital Partners in its investment in Ivanti, a provider of automated IT and security operations solutions, alongside Ivanti’s existing investors, Clearlake Capital Group and TA Associates.
- Represented Partners Group in its acquisition of Careismatic Brands, a healthcare apparel company, from New Mountain Capital.
- Represented Harvest Partners in its acquisition of Yellowstone Landscape, a provider of commercial landscaping services.
- Represented Avista Capital Partners in its acquisition of GCM Holding Corporation, an outsourced manufacturer of high-precision components and assemblies primarily for the medtech industry and other select diversified industrial end markets.
- Represented Park Place Technologies, a portfolio company of Charlesbank and GTCR, in its acquisition of Curvature, a global leader in independent, multi-vendor support and pre-owned network and data center equipment, from Partners Group.
- Represented Weld North Education, a portfolio company of Silver Lake and a leading digital education technology company focused on developing digital curriculum and tools for preK-12th grade, in its acquisition of Glynlyon.
- Represented Summa Equity in its acquisition of G-CON Manufacturing, a maker of prefabricated cleanrooms used by the pharmaceutical industry.
- Represented Hearthside Food Solutions, a portfolio company of Partners Group and Charlesbank Capital Partners, in its acquisition of the bakery business of Weston Foods and sale of VSI (European bar manufacturing business) to EMPWR.
- Represented Long Point Capital in its sale of CHA Consulting, a provider of design, engineering and consulting services, to First Reserve.